Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 6 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 635 348 799
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 10.02% 12.60% 13.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.44% 41.98% 46.56%
Number of salaries quoted 257 285 719
10th Percentile £24,000 £26,250 £28,924
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,533 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £59,513
% change year-on-year +4.00% +5.02% -8.44%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,696 829 1,716
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.76% 30.01% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 726 622 1,463
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £74,000 £70,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,614 £75,600
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex -3 154 £41,000 -4.09% 35
Cambridgeshire +6 138 £57,550 +15.10% 29
Hertfordshire -19 113 £60,000 +9.09% 63
Suffolk +29 93 £57,000 +14.00% 19
Norfolk +2 87 £60,000 +84.43% 23
Bedfordshire +15 48 £14,000 -73.58% 22
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 54 (8.50%) SharePoint
2 31 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.42%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.10%) WordPress
5 5 (0.79%) CMS
6 1 (0.16%) Apache
6 1 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
6 1 (0.16%) Umbraco
Applications
1 86 (13.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.63%) Chatbot
2 4 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.42%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.31%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (22.52%) Power Platform
2 124 (19.53%) Microsoft 365
3 112 (17.64%) Azure AI
4 88 (13.86%) AWS
5 75 (11.81%) Entra ID
6 38 (5.98%) PowerApps
7 35 (5.51%) Power Automate
8 33 (5.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 31 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
10 26 (4.09%) OneDrive
11 25 (3.94%) GCP
12 19 (2.99%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 19 (2.99%) Snowflake
13 17 (2.68%) GitHub
13 17 (2.68%) SaaS
14 14 (2.20%) IaaS
15 10 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 10 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.26%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (9.45%) Firewall
2 26 (4.09%) VPN
3 22 (3.46%) DNS
4 20 (3.15%) WAN
5 16 (2.52%) DHCP
6 15 (2.36%) LAN
6 15 (2.36%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.57%) Internet
8 8 (1.26%) Wireless
9 7 (1.10%) Broadband
10 6 (0.94%) Network Security
10 6 (0.94%) SAN
11 5 (0.79%) DMZ
11 5 (0.79%) VLAN
12 4 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.63%) WLAN
13 3 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 3 (0.47%) SSL
14 2 (0.31%) Remote Desktop
14 2 (0.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (20.94%) Power BI
2 92 (14.49%) Tableau
3 37 (5.83%) Azure SQL Database
4 25 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 15 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (2.05%) Data Lake
7 8 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (1.26%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (1.26%) MySQL
8 6 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (0.94%) Looker
8 6 (0.94%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.47%) Big Data
10 3 (0.47%) Redis
10 3 (0.47%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (1.89%) Git
2 8 (1.26%) Jenkins
3 6 (0.94%) JIRA
3 6 (0.94%) MLflow
4 2 (0.31%) Selenium
5 1 (0.16%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.16%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.16%) JMeter
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
5 1 (0.16%) REST Assured
General
1 379 (59.69%) Social Skills
2 66 (10.39%) Finance
3 26 (4.09%) Law
4 25 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 11 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (1.57%) Multimedia
8 8 (1.26%) Marketing
9 6 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (0.94%) Retail
10 5 (0.79%) Publishing
11 4 (0.63%) Banking
11 4 (0.63%) Legal
11 4 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.47%) Advertising
13 2 (0.31%) Police
14 1 (0.16%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (28.35%) Analyst
2 172 (27.09%) Junior
3 168 (26.46%) Junior Analyst
4 85 (13.39%) Security Analyst
5 84 (13.23%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 84 (13.23%) Data Analyst
5 84 (13.23%) Junior Data Analyst
5 84 (13.23%) Junior Security Analyst
6 65 (10.24%) Developer
7 64 (10.08%) IT Support
8 60 (9.45%) Ethical Hacker
9 51 (8.03%) Senior
10 37 (5.83%) Network Engineer
11 36 (5.67%) Architect
11 36 (5.67%) IT Engineer
12 35 (5.51%) Azure Engineer
13 34 (5.35%) Support Engineer
14 29 (4.57%) Lead
15 28 (4.41%) Software Developer
16 26 (4.09%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (8.35%) CSS
2 42 (6.61%) HTML
3 33 (5.20%) .NET
4 26 (4.09%) .NET Core
5 23 (3.62%) JSON
6 22 (3.46%) HTML5 Canvas
7 19 (2.99%) Microsoft Graph
7 19 (2.99%) SPFx
8 17 (2.68%) REST
9 13 (2.05%) jQuery
10 11 (1.73%) React
11 10 (1.57%) SOAP
12 8 (1.26%) PyTorch
12 8 (1.26%) scikit-learn
12 8 (1.26%) TensorFlow
13 7 (1.10%) ASP.NET
13 7 (1.10%) Kafka
14 6 (0.94%) ASP.NET Core
14 6 (0.94%) LangChain
14 6 (0.94%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 60 (9.45%) Cyberattack
2 32 (5.04%) Cloud Native
3 12 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (1.89%) Onboarding
4 11 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.26%) Clustering
5 8 (1.26%) Low-Code
6 7 (1.10%) Robotics
6 7 (1.10%) Security Posture
7 6 (0.94%) Cloud Security Posture
7 6 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (0.94%) Driving Licence
7 6 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 6 (0.94%) PKI
7 6 (0.94%) Product Ownership
7 6 (0.94%) Public Cloud
8 5 (0.79%) Blog
8 5 (0.79%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 4 (0.63%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.07%) Windows
2 55 (8.66%) Windows Server
3 13 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (1.89%) Linux
5 11 (1.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.42%) Android
7 7 (1.10%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.79%) VMS
9 4 (0.63%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (33.54%) Cybersecurity
2 155 (24.41%) AI
3 135 (21.26%) Business Intelligence
4 126 (19.84%) Mentoring
5 66 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (9.76%) Agile
7 60 (9.45%) Ethical Hacking
8 53 (8.35%) DevOps
9 48 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (6.61%) CI/CD
11 38 (5.98%) Analytics
12 35 (5.51%) Computer Science
12 35 (5.51%) Technical Leadership
13 34 (5.35%) Machine Learning
14 32 (5.04%) Roadmaps
15 29 (4.57%) Data Modelling
15 29 (4.57%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (4.41%) ERP
16 28 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 28 (4.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 167 (26.30%) SQL
2 152 (23.94%) Python
3 66 (10.39%) C#
4 45 (7.09%) JavaScript
4 45 (7.09%) PowerShell
5 25 (3.94%) PHP
6 22 (3.46%) TypeScript
7 15 (2.36%) Java
8 12 (1.89%) C++
9 9 (1.42%) R
10 6 (0.94%) Bash
10 6 (0.94%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.31%) Bicep
11 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 305 (48.03%) Azure Certification
2 86 (13.54%) CompTIA Security+
3 85 (13.39%) CompTIA CySA+
4 60 (9.45%) CEH
5 55 (8.66%) Degree
6 41 (6.46%) Microsoft Certification
7 39 (6.14%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (6.14%) Security Cleared
8 33 (5.20%) CCNA
9 29 (4.57%) Network+ Certification
10 25 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (3.94%) SC Cleared
11 19 (2.99%) AWS Certification
12 10 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 8 (1.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.26%) TOGAF Certification
14 6 (0.94%) CCNP
14 6 (0.94%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.79%) DV Cleared
16 4 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (2.83%) GDPR
2 15 (2.36%) Accessibility
2 15 (2.36%) QA
3 10 (1.57%) GRC
3 10 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.26%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.26%) NIST
5 6 (0.94%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 5 (0.79%) JSP 440
6 5 (0.79%) NCSC
6 5 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.63%) SLA
8 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.31%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.16%) IFRS
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 31000
9 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.16%) PMO
System Software
1 82 (12.91%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (2.52%) Hyper-V
3 16 (2.52%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.94%) Docker
5 6 (0.94%) vSphere
6 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (5.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (2.52%) Terraform
3 13 (2.05%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.26%) Ansible
5 4 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.63%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.63%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.16%) Grafana
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.16%) Nessus
6 1 (0.16%) SCCM
6 1 (0.16%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 441 (69.45%) Microsoft
2 168 (26.46%) ForeScout
3 37 (5.83%) Cisco
4 30 (4.72%) VMware
5 19 (2.99%) Adobe
6 17 (2.68%) Databricks
7 12 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 12 (1.89%) SAP
7 12 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.57%) Veeam
9 9 (1.42%) Epicor
9 9 (1.42%) SolarWinds
10 8 (1.26%) Apple
10 8 (1.26%) Aruba
11 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.10%) Salesforce
12 6 (0.94%) Dell
12 6 (0.94%) Google
12 6 (0.94%) Meraki
12 6 (0.94%) Palo Alto